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Christology. God-man (Koinē Greek: θεάνθρωπος, romanized: theánthropos; Latin: deus homo[1]) is a term which refers to the incarnation and the hypostatic union of Christ, which are two of mainstream Christianity 's most widely accepted and revered christological doctrines.
Christians generally believe that this narrative is historically true. While there has been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians believe that Jesus is the Logos, God incarnate (God in human form), God the Son, and " true God and true man " vera homo vera Deo— truly man and truly God.
In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. [5] Christians believe in a monotheistic, trinitarian conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). [6]
599–661 CE. According to the Alawite faith, Ali ibn Abi Talib is one member of a trinity (Ali - Muhammad - Salman the Persian) corresponding roughly to the Christian Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. [ 27 ] He is considered the second emanation of God by Yarsan and the supreme deity in Ali-Illahism. Tan Goan-kong.
Abrahamic religions. The Abrahamic God in this sense is the conception of God that remains a common attribute of all three traditions. God is conceived of as eternal, omnipotent, omniscient and as the creator of the universe. God is further held to have the properties of holiness, justice, omnibenevolence and omnipresence.
Christian humanism regards classical humanist principles such as universal human dignity, individual freedom, and the importance of happiness as essential and principal or even exclusive components of the teachings of Jesus. Proponents of the term trace the concept to the Renaissance, linking their beliefs to the scholarly movement and ...
Incarnation. Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It is the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form [1] or an anthropomorphic form of a god. [2] It is used to mean a god, deity, or Divine Being in human or animal form on Earth. The proper noun, Incarnation, refers to the union of ...
Great chain of being. The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [1][2][3] The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a ...